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Rajeshwari Jadhav
Forum Moderator

Hi,

The install gets tricked that the uninstall_data.dat file doesn't exist but in fact, it exists with 0 kb size. So, the fix is to remove/delete the file

%APPDATA% Ansys\v242\ProdConfig /uninstall_data.dat

start the installation again.

Follow ERROR- “File not found: uninst_data.dat”

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